57

Heavily built and engineered for redundancy and confidence at sea, the Nordhavn 57 is unlike any other long-range yacht her size on the market. This is a serious passagemaker with a bulbous bow beneath the waterline (to increase hull speed), a full-displacement hull, and an unusually wide full-length keel that allows for a standing engine room beneath the salon. The three-stateroom, two-head interior is arranged with the galley in the salon and a full-beam master stateroom amidships, under the pilothouse. The deck plan has a wide side deck to starboard and a narrower walkway on the port side. There’s a deck access door in the galley and two additional deck doors in the pilothouse, five steps up from the salon. On deck, high protective bulwarks and a Portuguese bridge around the wheelhouse provide plenty of deck security. The ship-like engine room is accessible from the cockpit lazarette, an exterior door on the starboard walkway, or the salon. Note the 70hp auxiliary get-home diesel in case of an emergency. A seaworthy yacht of uncompromising quality, the Nordhavn’s single 340hp Lugger diesel delivers almost 3,500 miles of range at 8 knots.